Temperate Agroforestry Systems

Author : Andrew M Gordon,Steven M Newman,Brent Coleman
Publisher : CABI
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780644851

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Temperate Agroforestry Systems by Andrew M Gordon,Steven M Newman,Brent Coleman Pdf

Organic animal production has increased rapidly in recent years to keep up with the increasing consumer demand for organic meats. There are many guidelines and restrictions on what should go into the feedstuffs of organically farmed animals, from which difficulties arise when trying to ensure a well-balanced, nutritious diet without the use of any supplements. The book has been completely updated and revised to address how to formulate organic diets in situations where there is a declining supply of organic feed, as well as the feasibility of utilizing novel feedstuffs and their acceptability by consumers of organic meat products. Including the experiences of producers in relation to appropriate breeds and production systems for forage-based organic production, this book is an important read for researchers and students of organic food animal production, veterinary sciences and food; as well as food industry personnel and organic farmers.

Author : Andrew Maclean Gordon,Steven Mark Newman,Brent R. W. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Agroforestry systems
ISBN : 1786393883

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Temperate Agroforestry Systems by Andrew Maclean Gordon,Steven Mark Newman,Brent R. W. Coleman Pdf

Author : Harold E. Gene Garrett,Shibu Jose,Michael A. Gold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780891183778

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North American Agroforestry by Harold E. Gene Garrett,Shibu Jose,Michael A. Gold Pdf

North American Agroforestry Explore the many benefits of alternative land-use systems with this incisive resource Humanity has become a victim of its own success. While we’ve managed to meet the needs—to one extent or another—of a large portion of the human population, we’ve often done so by ignoring the health of the natural environment we rely on to sustain our planet. And by deteriorating the quality of our air, water, and land, we’ve put into motion consequences we’ll be dealing with for generations. In the newly revised Third Edition of North American Agroforestry, an expert team of researchers delivers an authoritative and insightful exploration of an alternative land-use system that exploits the positive interactions between trees and crops when they are grown together and bridges the gap between production agriculture and natural resource management. This latest edition includes new material on urban food forests, as well as the air and soil quality benefits of agroforestry, agroforestry’s relevance in the Mexican context, and agroforestry training and education. The book also offers: A thorough introduction to the development of agroforestry as an integrated land use management strategy Comprehensive explorations of agroforestry nomenclature, concepts, and practices, as well as an agroecological foundation for temperate agroforestry Practical discussions of tree-crop interactions in temperate agroforestry, including in systems such as windbreak practices, silvopasture practices, and alley cropping practices In-depth examinations of vegetative environmental buffers for air and water quality benefits, agroforestry for wildlife habitat, agroforestry at the landscape level, and the impact of agroforestry on soil health Perfect for environmental scientists, natural resource professionals and ecologists, North American Agroforestry will also earn a place in the libraries of students and scholars of agricultural sciences interested in the potential benefits of agroforestry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015058238331

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Temperate Agroforestry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ranjith P. Udawatta,Shibu Jose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030800604

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Agroforestry and Ecosystem Services by Ranjith P. Udawatta,Shibu Jose Pdf

This book is a state-of-the-art compilation of the latest information on ecosystem services of agroforestry. The last two decades have seen a surge in literature on the ecosystem services of sustainable agriculture practices, including that of agroforestry; however, compilation and synthesis of such information from agroforestry have been limited. This book fills that void by bringing in a number of experts from around the world. In addition to presenting the multiple dimensions of ecosystem services provided by major agroforestry practices, the book also offers case studies from both tropical and temperate regions of the world. Information from this book can be used to design land management practices for climate change mitigation, ecosystem benefits, agricultural productivity and sustainability, and for survival and profitability of family farms and to conserve biodiversity. While synthesizing information of the biophysical aspects of ecosystem services, the book also outlines the socioeconomic and policy dimensions, including appropriate incentive models to enhance adoption of agroforestry so that society at large can enjoy these important benefits

Author : Maria Rosa Mosquera-Losada,Ravi Prabhu
Publisher : Burleigh Dodds Series in Agric
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 178676220X

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Agroforestry for Sustainable Agriculture by Maria Rosa Mosquera-Losada,Ravi Prabhu Pdf

This volume reviews the latest research on the role and implementation of main types of agroforestry, the ecosystem services that agroforestry can deliver and techniques for optimising agroforestry practice.

Author : Louise E. Buck,James P. Lassoie,Erick C.M. Fernandes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 142004947X

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Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems by Louise E. Buck,James P. Lassoie,Erick C.M. Fernandes Pdf

Agroforestry in Sustainable Agricultural Systems examines the environmental and social conditions that affect the roles and performance of trees in field- and forest-based agricultural production systems. Various types of ecological settings for agroforestry are analyzed within temperate and tropical regions. The roles of soil, water, light, nutrient and pest management in mixed, annual, woody perennial and livestock systems are discussed. Important new case studies from around the world offer innovative strategies that have been used successfully in raising forests and tree products on a sustainable basis for commercial harvesting and for providing other environmental services in land conservation and watershed management.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : MINN:31951P01092749L

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Inside Agroforestry by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. E. Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : 0891181636

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North American Agroforestry by H. E. Garrett Pdf

Author : Antonio Rigueiro-Rodríguez,Jim McAdam,María Rosa Mosquera-Losada
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402082726

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Agroforestry in Europe by Antonio Rigueiro-Rodríguez,Jim McAdam,María Rosa Mosquera-Losada Pdf

Agroforestry has come of age during the past three decades. The age-old practice of growing trees and crops and sometimes animals in interacting combinations – that has been ignored in the single-commodity-oriented agricultural and forestry development paradigms – has been brought into the realm of modern land-use. Today agroforestry is well on its way to becoming a specialized science at a level similar to those of crop science and forestry science. To most land-use experts, however, agroforestry has a tropical connotation. They consider agroforestry as something that can and can only be identified with the tropics. That is a wrong perception. While it is true that the tropics, compared to the temperate regions, have a wider array of agroforestry systems and hold greater promise for potential agroforestry interventions, it is also true that agroforestry has several opportunities in the temperate regions too. Indeed, the role of agroforestry is now recognized in Europe as exemplified by this book, North America, and elsewhere in the temperate zone. Current interest in ecosystem management in industrialized countries strongly suggests that there is a need to embrace and apply agroforestry principles to help mitigate the environmental problems caused or exacerbated by commercial agricultural and forestry production enterprises.

Author : P. K. R. Nair,M.R. Rao,L.E. Buck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1402025017

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New Vistas in Agroforestry by P. K. R. Nair,M.R. Rao,L.E. Buck Pdf

This volume is a collection of 31 multi-authored, rigorously peer-reviewed chapters on different aspects of agroforestry, produced as a compendium on the occasion of the 1st World Congress of Agroforestry, June 2004. Its contenst include a tropical-temperate mix of topics, which is a rare feature of a publication of this nature. Several of the chapters are on topics that have not been discussed or described much in agroforestry literature. A third feature is that some of the authors, though well known in their own disciplinary areas, are somewhat new to agroforestry; the perceptions and outlooks of these scholars who are relatively uninfluenced by the past happenings in agroforestry gives a whole new dimension to agroforestry and broadens the scope of the subject. Finally, rather than just reviewing and summarizing past work, most chapters take the extra effort in attempting to outline the next steps. Agroforestry stands to gain enormously from the infusion of these new and different ideas and bold initiatives, thus making the title "New Vistas" quite justifiable.

Author : P. K. R. Nair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0792321359

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An Introduction to Agroforestry by P. K. R. Nair Pdf

This college-level textbook summarizes the state of current knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of agroforestry. The book, organized into 25 chapters in six sections, reviews the developments in agroforestry during the past 15 years and describes the accomplishments in the application of biophysical (plant and soil related) and socioeconomic sciences to agroforestry. Although the major focus of the book is on the tropics, where the practice and potential of agroforestry are particularly promising, the developments in temperate zone agroforestry are also discussed. This text is recommended for students, teachers, and researchers in agroforestry, farming systems, and tropical land use.

Author : B. Mohan Kumar,P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400716303

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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems by B. Mohan Kumar,P. K. Ramachandran Nair Pdf

Tree based production systems abound especially in the tropics. Despite the pervasiveness of such multipurpose “trees-outside-forest” resources, they have not attracted adequate attention in the development paradigms of many nation states. These multispecies production systems impact the ecosystem processes favourably. Yet, our understanding of the diversity attributes and carbon dynamics under agroforestry is not adequate. This book focuses on the role of multispecies production systems involving tree and crop species as a means for carbon sequestration and thereby reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Sixteen chapters organized into three broad sections titled: Measurement and Estimation, Agrobiodiversity and Tree Management, and Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects represent a cross section of the opportunities and challenges in current research and emerging issues in harnessing carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D015472049

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Opportunities for Agroforestry in the Temperate Zone Worldwide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Morgan Clayton
Publisher : States Academic Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 163989036X

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Agroforestry: A Comprehensive Introduction by Morgan Clayton Pdf

Agroforestry is the system that is used to monitor land usage. It involves planting different shrubs and trees around and among pastureland and crops. This field has evolved with the integration of agriculture and forestry. The systems of agroforestry are used to enhance biodiversity, reduce soil erosion, enhance wildlife habitats, contribute towards sustainable agricultural systems and improve adaptation to climate change. The field is based on the theories of agroecology and ecology. Tropical agroforestry and temperate agroforestry are some of the areas where this field finds its application. Some types of systems used in this field include crop-over-tree systems, shade crops, itteri agroforestry, and alley and strip cropping. This book is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide an in-depth knowledge about the theory and practice of agroforestry. It also unfolds the innovative aspects related to this discipline which will be crucial for the holistic understanding of the subject matter. This book, with its detailed analyzes and data, will prove immensely beneficial to professionals and students involved in this area at various levels.